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Univ. Of Copenhagen: Centre for Ice and Climate: Preserved Fossil Dna in the Ice

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Discusses how fossil DNA data that is collected from ice cores is used by scientists to reconstruct the composition of past ecosystems and their biodiversity, as well as climates. There is a great deal of other information on the website worth exploring, e.g., how drilling is done, how ice cores are analyzed, storage of ice cores, etc.

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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